WorldNetDaily was founded on Clinton derangement, and it’s never ended there. That appears to be one reason why former congressman James Rogan — one of the House Republicans who pushed for President Clinton’s impeachment in 1998 — has suddenly popped up to write some columns at WND.
The other big reason: Rogan’s a WND author, and WND has some books of his collecting dust in its warehouse that it would like to unload for some desperately needed cash. So revered is Rogan at WND that it bought the domain “RoganCollection.com” and pointed it to the page at WND’s online store that lists the books he’s written for it. He also has a new WND-published book coming out in May (if WND is still in existence then, that is).
Iin his Jan. 20 column, Rogan rehashed all the old Clinton-bashing talking points from the ’90s, insisting that Clinton’s impeachment (the subject of Rogan’s first WND-published book) mattered because “it wasn’t about sex – it was about the rule of law” and that “I still wonder why people back then didn’t care.”
Rogan gave no indication that he cares about the political abuses and personal scandals of the thrice-married adulterer and shady businessman currently occupying the White House. But then, he’s rumored to be on the short list for a federal judicial appointment to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals , and he certainly doesn’t want anything to get in the way of that.
On Jan. 31, Rogan wrote a column lionizing Richard Nixon as “wholly gifted, wholly flawed, wholly undaunted – wholly American.” Watergate merited mention for only half a sentence.
Then, in his Feb. 7 column, Rogan praises Donald Trump — you know, the guy who might appoint him to that cushy appeals court seat — as a political populist in the vein of, um, George Wallace. Sadly, Rogan means this as a complement.
To do that, of course, one has to whitewash, as it were, the history of Wallace, particularly as it relates to his 1968 presidential campaign, the subject of Rogan’s upcoming (maybe) book. For instance, Rogan claims that “By 1968 Wallace had long since jettisoned his earlier segregationist message and instead focused on the populist themes he had used in 1964,” but he also states that a key part of Wallace’s platform was “states’ rights” — which, as any student of history knows, is a code word for segregation.
But it appears Rogan is most pleased with Wallace for splitting the Democratic vote enough to cost Hubert Humphrey, “a diehard liberal and a recent Vietnam peace convert” the election and “put Richard Nixon (a moderate-conservative and a Vietnam War hawk) in the White House.”
These, it seems, are the kind of chits you call in when you’re WND and can’t actually afford to pay anyone for their content.